- From: Sean B. Palmer <sean@mysterylights.com>
- Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 20:01:26 -0000
- To: "Tim Berners-Lee" <timbl@w3.org>, "Jonathan Borden" <jborden@mediaone.net>, "Ora Lassila" <daml@lassila.org>
- Cc: <www-rdf-interest@w3.org>
> Whether for simplicity one defines synonyms in the DAML > namesapce for RDFS proerties is a question which is open. As the number of RDF Schemas increase, it is becoming more and more difficult to create complex RDF (such as the XHTML to RDF conversion stuff) without referencing a huge quantity of namespaces. I'm starting to think that it may be better if for a very complex RDF system, one created a single namespace that includes synonyms (using "isDefinedBy" and "equivalentTo" properties) for all of the separate namespaces and properties/classes therein that one uses. To some extent this cannot be done because languages like RSS have (prose) structuring, but if I needed one property from each of ten namespaces, why not just create another RDF Schema that contains synonyms for them all and use that as the only namespace? As to the more structured stuff (RSS, EDL etc.), I'm not sure that there is any easy solution to mix them, becasue as yet they don't have any form of Schema that defines how they can be mixed. However, if they did have Schemas (XML) that would be a piece of cake as well, wouldn't it? My 2p worth... Kindest Regards, Sean B. Palmer http://www.mysterylights.com/sbp/ http://www.w3.org/WAI/ [ERT/GL/PF] "Perhaps, but let's not get bogged down in semantics." - Homer J. Simpson, BABF07.
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